OK,June bought her bike from a man in Maldon in mid july.
So let us put it all together.Bamber told Julie in june that he hoped that Sheila and the twins would visit the farm soon,SOON! And he had decided to use a bike in the execution of the crime and would do a trial run.
Surely this would mean getting hold of a bike ASAP to carry out the trial run and have the bike revved up ready to go,he said himself that he hoped Sheila would visit soon.So with harvest fast approaching when any spare time would be limited ,surely Bamber would have seen about getting hold of a bike there and then in preparation?
The school holidays would have started long before July,so Sheila could have appeared with the boys at any time.
Yet,here's the thing Bamber did not purchase a bike in june after deciding to use one in the shooting, nor in the first half of july,now keep in mind that Sheila could have arrived with the boys at short notice at any time and the harvest was starting,yet no bike had been purchased yet roughly a month after Bamber had decided to use one.
Then,low and behold June just happens to buy a bike in the nick of time,so Bamber decides he wont need to.
But lets just think about this for a minute,June buys the bike for her own use,so why does Bamber think he can just take it? Why would he imagine that he can just take it away,do a trial run and then use it to carry out the crime? What if June simply loved using the bike and used it every day without fail,how could JB steal it from her? Or even ask her to let Julie use it?
No way could Bamber count on using Junes bike,there is no way he could have known that she would not take to it and abandon it to be pinched or loaned even to Julie. And keep in mind,the bike was only purchased three weeks before the murders anyway.
Maybe I am not making my point very clear,but just look at it this way,the prosecution wants you to believe that Bamber decided in june 1985 to use a bike to carry out the murders,yet did not purchase one.However in mid july his mum just happened to by a bike albeit a ladies bike and Bamber decided that he would somehow manage to obtain IT,to use in the crime.And luckily for Bamber,June did not take to the bike and he was free,albeit at the very last minute to either pinch the bike from under June's nose or ask her for a loan of it,JUST as Sheila and the boys are arriving at the farm.PHEW! Thats cutting it a bit fine isn't it?
Now you could argue that Bamber put off buying a bike in june or sometime before when he decided one would be needed because there was word of June buying a bike,but why would he gamble on this? June may have even changed her mind or if she did buy one take to it like a duck to water as said.
No,I think common sense tells us that as soon as Bamber decided to use a bike he would have bought one,and not waited on the off chance that June would buy one and disowen it soon after.
Poppycock! Just think the time line through from the first alleged mention of a bike by Bamber sometime in june until he finally got his hands on one just DAYS before the murders.
